rasure
See also: rasuré
English
Etymology
From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādere (“to scrape, shave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪʒə/
Noun
rasure (countable and uncountable, plural rasures)
- (now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
- (now rare) Obliteration, destruction.
- (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
Latin
Old French
Portuguese
Verb
rasure
- inflection of rasurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
rasure
- inflection of rasurar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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